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@alexvandesande alexvandesande released this 17 May 18:34
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This is a security release. The details on the security issues are described on this blog post.

This is the first release to include geth 1.4 wich should come with some performance improvements and connection fixes.

New from 0.7:

This is a small but very special release. First, and foremost it's the first release with contributions from our new team members: Ramesh Nair (@hiddentao), Everton Fraga (@evertonfraga) and Luca Zeug (@luclu). With our new hires we hope to be shift the focus slowly from adding features to the Ethereum Wallet and focus more on Mist Browser, the target of the next big Ethereum Milestone, Metropolis. We will write more about the new roadmap for mist and how the new team members fit into that, but for the moment, let's talk about this release:

  • On version 0.7.x we added Contract Events to our logs, which would allow users to watch contracts for any event logged. At each new block the wallet reads not only the new events, but goes back a few blocks and checks them again, in case there was a network split. We knew there was a very proeminent crowdsale that would benefit from it, but we never expected it would be as popular as it became. As a result, at each block the wallet was doing over 10k local database reads and writes, therefore causing the interface to stop responding and sometimes lose connection to the database. This bug was behind the dreaded "invalid date" error that affected many of our users.
  • A lot of the logging and startup sequence has been rewritten, to avoid common sync errors on startup and make bug diagnostics more effective.
  • New traditional chinese translation has been added, as well as improvements to french and spanish translations. All of these are from members of the community and we are grateful for everyone. If you want to make a translation or help on our current ones, here are the links you'll need:

https://github.com/ethereum/mist/blob/develop/interface/i18n/app.en.i18n.json
https://github.com/ethereum/mist/blob/develop/interface/i18n/mist.en.i18n.json
https://github.com/ethereum/meteor-dapp-wallet/blob/develop/app/i18n/app.en.i18n.json
https://github.com/ethereum/meteor-dapp-wallet/blob/develop/app/i18n/wallet.en.i18n.json

  • Keyboard shortcuts have been changed to avoid conflicts, typos and many other smaller bug fixes.

These should fix most recent issues, but you still have trouble launching or running the wallet and you feel you must do it this week, we recommend you try these, in order:

  • If you are watching The DAO we recommend you stop watching it for now, at least while it's so popular. You can still send ether to it, if that's your intention. On our testings, even if the performance has improved, watching the DAO still hangs the wallet occasionally.
  • If you can't even launch the wallet to remove it, try downloading and running (no need to uninstall or delete anything) the Wallet version 0.6.2, stop watching and then launch the newest one (or use the older version for a while).
  • If you still have the "Invalid Date" error or is stuck at "Waiting for blocks" for a long period of time, then you might have a corrupted database and might need to sync it again. Go to your Ethereum folder (access it via accounts > backup > accounts), delete (or simply rename) the folder chain data and start the app again.
  • Create an issue
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